This is an analysis of the poem Bki:Iii Virgil: Off To Greece that begins with:

May the goddess, queen of Cyprus,
and Helen’s brothers, the brightest of stars,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXc dbce ffXb ggXd fbha edXX hdXd dfgX XbdX dbii
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10101010 1101001001 11000110 01010110011 11111010 0111101001 11101111 1111010110 10111010 0100111010 010100101 0110011100 10001001 0110110101 10001010 1011111010 11011111 111111010 10100110 1100001001 10101101 0100110010 001010101 10011101000 10011101 0101101001 11010100 11010101001 110110010 0110011011 01010011 1110110101 11011011 1001010111 10101001 1011010100 10111101 1111101001 10111100 1010101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 148
  • Average number of words per stanza: 27
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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